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Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre: The Complete Collection includes this story.Fixed Fairy Tales has a version with a different ending - the princess says that she won’t marry someone who played such a mean trick on her!.There are so many differences that this is a good candidate for Venn diagram practice. See the Fractured Fairy Tales version below.You can read the original story online by clicking the title at the beginning of this post.Mary Engelbreit included this story in her Nursery and Fairy Tales Collection.The Princess and the Pizza, by the wonderful Mary Jane Auch, involves an entirely different set of tests and a completely different ending.Tony Johnston has done a cowboy version with a male hero, called The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea.Janet Stevens did hers with a lion for a protagonist.Fans of Janet Perlman’s Cinderella Penguin, or, The Little Glass Flipper will love The Penguin and the Pea.In this case, you get inner pages from a completely different book. (A warning here - our links go to Amazon, where you can usually look inside the books and see the pictures. Alain Vaes‘s updated version has a resourceful heroine.Variations on the theme include Mimi Grey’s witty The Very Smart Pea and the Princess-to-be, which tells the story from the point of view of the pea.Rachel Isadora has done a version set in Africa.Francesc Boada did a bilingual version, Princess and the Pea/La Princesa y el Guisante.

Lauren Child has recently done a picture book version with illustrations combining witty drawings with dollhouse photos.

John Cech has done a classic picture book version of The Princess and the Pea.

This is such a short story that you may want to introduce several different forms of the story to your class. This preternatural sensitivity proves that she is a real princess, and the prince marries her. The mysterious visitor hardly sleeps a wink, and is bruised in the morning. Having placed a pea onto the bed, she piles 20 mattresses and 20 featherbeds (sometimes now replaced with “quilts,” since most kids won’t know what a featherbed was) onto it.

The prince’s mother offers her a bed for the night, and devises a test for the girl. She claims to be a princess, but is so bedraggled that the prince is skeptical.

After he returns home in despair, a storm brews up, and a sodden stranger appears at the door asking shelter.

In the story, a prince searches in vain for a suitable princess to marry. The Brothers Grimm included a similar story in one of their collections in the 1840s, but removed it when they found that Andersen had published his a decade earlier. “The Princess and the Pea” is another tale by Hans Christian Andersen, though he himself said that it was a story he remembered from his childhood.